Word: shoes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...middle of the engrossing Larry Bird vs. Magic Johnson portion of the show, an old advertisement for Converse basketball shoes came on. If memory has failed you, this was really one of the first star-specific basketball shoe ads to hit the airwaves...
Michael was and is a great player. In my eyes, however, his success has signaled the downfall of the NBA. The path of this can be seen by looking at the metamorphosis of the Air Jordan basketball shoe...
When the Nike Air Jordan--or the Sky Jordan as it was first called--was introduced, it was more identifiable with the Bulls than with Michael himself. The color concept was red and black, like the Bulls' colors and maybe a simple "23" adorned the shoe, I can't recall. Again, the shoes represented the team more than the player. But Michael was a spectacular player on a decidedly unspectacular team. This forced Nike to be more creative in its marketing...
...Jordan developed. Soon there was an artistic rendering of Mike dunking on the sole of the shoe. The colors soon moved from that simple, team-oriented black and red to purple and green to some strange rainbow-flavored peace ensemble. The shoe--and the player--distanced itself from the team, leaving them behind to flounder in the wake of marketing run amok...
Last week Bodziak again testified that the shoes appeared to be the same, but the defense is claiming the photograph was doctored. The defense also showed that Bodziak was unable to identify an assortment of other shoe prints surrounding the crime scene. Since then, though, the National Enquirer has come up with another photograph showing Simpson wearing similar shoes in 1993. "God, how we searched for those shoes," says the former Simpson prosecutor now. "We sat watching Christmas videos with the Brown family. We digitally enhanced photos of things in his closet, hoping to find an old shoe...